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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/-Mystica- on 2025-06-20 00:28:52+00:00.

Original Title: Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds. Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.